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Practical Action in NepalHead of Programme Delivery
Sep. 2023NepalProgram Quality & Delivery – Ensure the application of Programme Quality Delivery (PQD) standards, focusing on project setup, initiation, and the Learn and Adapt segments. Oversee the timely and quality delivery of projects and awards, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, internal policies, and budget constraints. Project & Award Management – Coordinate with government entities for project agreements, lead evaluations, and support the monitoring of project budgets and work plans. Work closely with finance teams to build project managers' capacity in budget management and ensure compliance with financial responsibilities. Sub-Award Management – Oversee sub-award management, ensuring partner capacity building and compliance with donor requirements. Collaborate with finance teams for procurement and logistics, ensuring value for money and the effective closing of projects in line with donor and organizational guidelines. Strategic Alignment & Impact – Ensure projects align with Practical Action’s change ambitions, integrating gender, MEL, and systems approaches to enhance effectiveness and demonstrate impact. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) – Establish robust MEL systems to assess impact and cost-effectiveness, drive lesson learning, and apply insights to project design, policy, and organizational growth. Knowledge Sharing & Planning – Foster learning, share insights to influence stakeholders and improve proposals, contribute to internal reporting, strategic business planning, and cross-theme integration. Risk Management - Ensure risks are identified and tracked in risk registers and are monitored for all projects & awards and, in particular, lead the monitoring of high risk awards.
Practical Action in NepalProgram Delivery Coordinator
May. 2022 - Oct. 2023Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal
CARETeam Leader
May. 2017 - Apr. 2022NepalEnsured quality of programs aimed at empowering women and adolescent girls to combat harmful social norms and reduce their vulnerability Led the team of 20 field staffs, including thematic specialists and senior officers. Collaborated with five implementing partners. Assures all staffs and partners are aligned with overall objective of the program driven by theory of change. Supported project design (led in some cases) together with business development team by synthesizing learnings, conducting assessments, facilitating consultations and analyzing secondary data. Partnered with appropriate networks such as Farmer’s Group Federation, Girls Not Brides, Beyond Beijing Committee and Children Zone of Peace to amplify the voices of women and adolescent girls at national and international platforms. Strengthened partnerships with networks, NGOs, academia, and allies to scale impact and support evidence-based advocacy. Ensured compliances are adhered with policies, guidelines and approaches defined by funding partners and governments through building capacity of partners, staffs and stakeholders Worked with systems for the sustainability of the projects. Ensured no one left behind, all are empowered, collectively identified the needs and also work together for synergy and impact. Represented CARE in national thematic clusters and networks to build alliances and expand outreach to marginalized communities.
HelpAge InternationalRecovery programme manager
Jul. 2016 - May. 2017Nepal✔ Led the team of 10 staffs and managed the portfolio of 2 million GBP ✔ Provided strategic, technical and managerial leadership to the project together with developing work plans and executing the project ✔ Establish the core implementation modality in participation of five implementation partners to address the issues of old aged people of earthquake affected districts. ✔ Develop detail implementation guidelines of the project with a right based approach through an efficient action plan of the NERP programme. ✔ Adhere to the project's framework, organizational values, partnership modality and theory of change ✔ Facilitate to establish common understanding among partners and stakeholders on core issues of old age population.
ADRA NepalPlanning, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
Apr. 2014 - Jun. 2016Nepal✔ Contributed and capacitated as ADRA International’s monitoring and evaluation working group member and Asia Regional Emergency Response Team member ✔ Led the planning monitoring and evaluation unit of ADRA Nepal and support to establish knowledge management system within the organization. ✔ Independently facilitated to project designing process including, need identification, planning and designing of the proposal. ✔ Represented ADRA Nepal as a consortia member for designing project proposals ✔ Facilitated the detail implementation planning meetings and supporting to develop DIG, operation manual and monitoring/evaluation plan of the project ✔ Coordinated at national and international level for developing the project planning, monitoring and evaluation systems. ✔ Selected partners following partnership selection procedures of ADRA Nepal and involved in due diligence checking process for finalization of partnership
ADRA NepalProgram Manager
Jan. 2009 - Mar. 2014Nepal✔ Supporting and guiding project implementation team and project implementation partners in the projects related to health, income generation through sustainable agriculture, climate change and disaster risk reduction ✔ Monitoring project activities at field level and utilizing available tools to ensure the quality implementation of the projects ✔ Networking and coordinating with governmental line offices and other similar organizations at central, regional and district level for synergic efforts and optimum utilization of the resources. ✔ Documenting and compiling the information received from implementation team and partners for quality report generation according to the reporting templates of donor agencies such as the European Union, UN agencies and NZAID. ✔ Developing monitoring tools on the basis of indicators of project log frame for assuring that achievements are in right track with intended quality. ✔ Monitoring the partners financially by developing a financial monitoring checklist. Ensuring that the partners are complying with the guidelines of donor agencies, ADRA, government and their own policies. ✔ Facilitating partners to develop project monitoring plan, monitoring tools and project operation manual to set the standard for performance
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